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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 204, 3 October 1900, Page 1

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(Br Elwtbio Tbmobaph.—Copimqhi.) m ram association. London, September 30, Mutton, crossbred wethers and maiden, ewes, Canterbury 3 3-16 d ; Dunedin and Southland 3 5-8 d ; North Island 3|d. Lamb, prime Canterbury 4|d, fair average including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury 4§d. River Plate crossbred or merino wethers, heavy and light, 3|d. New Zealand beef, 180 to 2201b5, fair average quality; ox fores, 3|d ;ox hinds 4 7-16 d. Hides: Queensland, heavy s£d, lighter 4| to sd; New South Wales, 4§d to 4£d, FEB PRES3 ASSOCIATION. Wellington, October 1. The Agent General wires the J>epartment of Agriculture:—"Butter, 104s. There are signs of No alteration in cheese market since! last week. Hemp market depressed; good to fair, Wellington £l7, Mkila £26. Mr. Cameron, New Zealand Produce Commissioner, at London, thinks there is a good market in the Old Country for pork shipped to arrive at the proper season. Pigs of excellent size and quality are being put on the London market in very large numbers in a chilled condition, and sold at prices averaging 4|d per lb. Mr, Cameron says complaints are made of crowding into boxes and generally of bad packing of the New Zealand poultry. There is a good market at Home for poultry of all classes of good quality and well dressed, They should be shipped as early ae possible in the year.